Isaac : One Determined First Grader

Two great things happened today: 

1-Isaac's teacher allowed him to check a Junie B. Jones book out of the library!  A couple of days ago he took some of our Junie B books to school; they caused a big problem, as kids were racing to book cubbies to grab their own copies of Junie B. to read at their desks.  I spoke with Isaac's classroom aide, whom Isaac reported  had said that "Kids in the red and yellow groups need to read their  leveled books", implying  that Isaac wasn't capable of reading Junie B.  Mrs. Cox and I had a nice conversation in which I expressed my concern about squleching his budding desire to read, explained how well I feel she and his teacher and title teacher are doing & how empowered he's feeling, and appealed to her to understand his desire and support us.  (I wanted to say, Good grief!  the kid reads all of his leveled books every night and reviews spelling words and does his math homework and alternately cooperates and cries, but he is working his tail off and is succeeding...and you want to take away the little PLEASURE he finds in reading? Sorry, I'm homeschooling.)  I guess she heard that little voice...or maybe his teacher was afraid I'd quit volunteering in the classroom. Whatever happened, I'm glad it did.  This evening a young, excited voice proclaimed numerous times, "Mom, look how much I've read!"  And indeed he had.  This is an exciting day.

Stay tuned for Part II:  More Tales from the Classroom

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